On 8 Feb 2010, at 19:34, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/8/10 5:55 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: >> On 2010-02-02, at 09:54 , Robert Wyatt wrote: >> >>> Kevin Horton wrote: >>>> David and Robert, >>>> >>>> Here is an updated cadabra.info file for you to test. Assuming >>>> you have fink installed in the default /sw location, put >>>> this .info file in /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo. You may >>>> have to create this directory if you haven't tested any >>>> local .info files before. >>>> >>>> If the build fails, please send me the last few lines of the >>>> build log. If the build passes, you can try another build in >>>> maintainer mode with "fink -m rebuild cadabra". This adds a few >>>> more sanity checks, and it also runs the test suite that is >>>> included with cadabra. >>>> >>>> I need to discuss this issue with the cadabra author, to see if >>>> this change might have any performance impact for cadara >>>> installations on OS X 10.5 or 10.6. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your help, >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kevin Horton >>>> Ottawa, Canada >>> >>> Did we check this in to CVS? >> >> >> I finally sorted out the cause of a crash I was getting when the >> cadabra test suite was run on 10.5 PPC. I captured some logs of >> the crash, and sent them to the cadabra author. He determined that >> the root cause was something fouled up in my GMP installation. >> Rebuilding GMP fixed the problem. >> >> Meanwhile, the cadabra author has made a number of fixes, some of >> which address issues that were reported to him by OS X users. I >> committed the fink package for cadabra 1.20 yesterday. It should >> work on 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6, although I have only tested it on 10.5 >> PPC and 10.6 Intel. >> -- >> Kevin Horton >> Ottawa, Canada >> >> >> > > One source of problems with gmp and libmpfr1 (possibly fftw3 too, > but I > haven't been able to substantiate that) is that the official and > unofficial binary distributions all use G5s, and the libraries in > these > packages don't have the right symbols for a G4.
That is quite possibly the source of my problems. I have been using unofficial binaries for some time on my ancient G4 PowerBook to avoid some long build times. I'll switch back to building everything from source. -- Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
